Infrastructure masters in the red building

In a blink of an eye, it has come to the season of crisp autumn.Most of the children of Guijie in Beijing have the habit of going out to hunt in Beijing during this time of year. The Crown Prince of the Jian Kingdom is not used to such activities, so he chose to go to Dongping Palace with the Crown Princess to listen to operas and eat wine.

On the surface, they are listening to operas and eating wine, but in fact, the Dongping Palace arranged for the prince to meet with the actor Ruan Yunqing in private.

This Ruan Yunqing is one of the pillars of the very popular Paiyun troupe in Beijing. She sings Zhengdan, with a positive voice and a very charming figure.As early as a few years ago, before the prince started supervising the country, he had already become the prince's pet.Now that the prince is in charge of the country, he seldom indulges in having fun, and the number of times he meets Ruan Yunqing is almost a handful.

But this time, King Dongping followed the prince's secret hint and invited the Paiyun troupe to sing an opera, and at the same time arranged for the two to meet in private.

The two haven't seen each other for a long time, and when they meet again at first sight, it's natural that it will be a firewood, and it will be a fire at one point, and then they will talk to each other tenderly.

After the work was over, the prince personally dressed Ruan Yunqing in front of the mirror, and slowly combed his well-maintained black hair with a fine-toothed comb.Ruan Yunqing listened to the music outside, and said: "Your Highness, please go to the outside to show your face, don't touch the face of the Crown Princess..."

The prince smiled and said: "It's okay, I can't get rid of her face. Today, there are only King Dongping and his wife in this mansion. Princess Dongping also prepared crabs from the south, which she also likes. If she is alone, she can be free, Let go of eating and drinking."

"Gu and the princess have always played their own way, and I'm used to it."

Upon hearing this, Ruan Yunqing couldn't help being startled: How can there be a couple in this world who play like this?

It is widely rumored that the prince and his wife are in harmony. Although the princess has nothing to do, the relationship between the two is very good - but it seems that the prince is indeed very kind to the princess, and is very considerate to her, but... it is not like the relationship between husband and wife. Be considerate.

The prince tied Ruan Yunqing's hair into a man's bun, tied it up with a jade hairpin, and then whispered in the other's ear: "Gu still thinks that Gu likes you better dressed like this."

Ruan Yunqing showed gratitude: "Thank you, the crown prince, for your love." Others love him because he looks like a man and a woman, soft and gentle.Only the prince likes him for what he is.

"Speaking of the children of Shunsuke in Jingzhong, none of them are born as good as you." The prince stared at the handsome face of the beauty in the mirror, and couldn't help stretching out his fingers to caress the graceful face and the thin and straight bridge of the nose , the white to almost transparent auricles...then whispered emotion in the ear of the other party.

Ruan Yunqing laughed out loud with a snort: "That's all, people born better than me are gone, but His Highness is not easy to provoke."

The prince was immediately discouraged: "You saw it."

"In fact, Guyan has been greedy for many people, and he dare not touch them all." The prince sighed: Jingzhong Shunjie's son was born either rich or noble, and he would easily get his hands on him. Are you alive?

"So who have you taken a fancy to recently?" Ruan Yunqing turned around and asked in a low voice while hugging the Prince's neck.

The prince immediately smiled wryly and said: "Gu really didn't move other people's minds... You know, before Gu thought that the youngest son of the Rong family was really good, not to mention his outstanding character, the garden he built with his own hands was also of excellent taste. Who knows, he became his own brother in a blink of an eye." The prince was also speechless about this, saying that he really can't be casual about flirting, and he must do a background check beforehand.

Ruan Yunqing recalled: "The third son of the Rong Mansion? The one surnamed Jia..."

"Well," the crown prince nodded, "Although he is Gu's younger brother, his surname is Jia, and his name is Jia Fang."

"By the way, this little brother Gu is really interesting. After spending his comfortable life in Beijing, he ran to a fief in the far south. Recently, he started to toss and turn in the south. He was working as a farmer for a while, and he was running a post office for a while... …It’s all done well.”

"But I'm getting tired of dealing with so many political affairs in this position every day. I never thought that this younger brother is still causing trouble for Gu..."

The more Ruan Yunqing listened to it, the more interesting she found it. She hugged the prince's arm and said, "Please tell me more, Your Highness. Yunqing's hometown is also in the south, so I want to hear about the things in the south."

The prince could only say: "It's not something interesting, it's just money, food, fields and so on."

"My little brother, after running to the south, first urged the local county magistrate to lay off those unqualified magistrates and yamen servants in the county, and let them pass the exam before they can take office..."

"Afterwards, Zhang Tian was assigned to the county. Do you know those methods such as 'hidden fields', 'guiji', and 'feisa'? They are used to evade taxes and labor?"

Ruan Yunqing was born in the countryside, and she nodded when she heard about these things when she was young.

The prince continued to explain enthusiastically: "Jia Fang used some means to find out all these fields that did not pay taxes. Then, in the name of the father, all these fields were 'requisitioned', and then they were 'requisitioned' on the spot. "Dividing the fields", saying that whoever is willing to pay taxes for these fields will plant the fields. Don't you think he is unreasonable?"

Ruan Yunqing was surprised: "So powerful?"

The crown prince said "Yes", and continued: "But those officials in the capital couldn't see it, and the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate wrote a letter of impeachment, saying that he was a usurper."

Jia Fang originally had no right to "expropriate" the land on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor. In the eyes of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, this is a great crime.

"Where does Gu say that he is arrogating? He just pulled up the father and emperor to come out as a banner, so that those who escaped from the tax and labor will pay the grain and tax again. If you refuse to pay, I'm sorry, this field is not good. It's yours, there are others waiting in line to pay the imperial court..."

The prince said it humorously, Ruan Yunqing couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing.

"Gu just said why these censors in Beijing are so blind. Jia Fang came up with such a way to allow the country to collect more money and food, and the burden of ordinary people from small households will be lighter, but these censors only hold The word 'transcendence' is not to be put."

"If you want to talk about it alone, based on the father's love for Jia Fang, you can seal the whole south to him. At that time, it's his business to do whatever he wants. Come to your ears."

The prince's tone was a bit sour, but the expression on his face was very complacent.

Ruan Yunqing couldn't help laughing, and said, "Your Highness really defends this brother. Isn't it because he was born well?"

The prince also laughed, and he laughed happily, and said confidently: "Among these lonely brothers, which one is not born well enough?"

The princes of the Tian family are all good-looking, and they all come out as good-looking young gentlemen.But everyone has heard a rumor: the one who most resembles His Majesty the Emperor when he was young did not grow up in the palace.

However, rumors are rumors, and now the emperor has not expressed his intention to let Jia Fang recognize his ancestors anyway.The prince verbally called Jia Fang "brother" and "old six", but he just regarded him as a special courtier in his heart.

"Gu only hopes that the sixth child is in the south, so don't take too big a step, so as not to cause some trouble for Gu Zhen."

"In case something goes wrong, Lao Liu can't count on those soldiers from the Pingnan camp."

Jia Fang sat in the flower hall of his Jiedu envoy's office, sneezed loudly, and thought: It's not cold yet, obviously he didn't catch a cold, so who cares about me?

Together with Yuan Hua, Zheng Boyi, Li Youwei and others, he has reviewed the process of clearing up all kinds of chaos in Wuyuan County's land ownership in the name of Zhang Tian, ​​and then wrote it down and compiled it into a An "internal reference" was sent to the Zhizhou of Yong'an Prefecture, and the Zhizhou issued it to all counties in Yong'an Prefecture.

The main experience of Wuyuan County is to rely on the original fish scale books in the county to carry out the work of confirming the existing land ownership with farmers on the spot, check the differences between the fish scale books and the actual situation, and make corrections after verification.

The principle of dealing with the hidden fields is to directly confiscate and "expropriate" them outside the fish scale book, discover these hidden fields through the power of the masses, and issue land ownership certificates after promising to pay taxes.

The method of dealing with treacherous land is to add an upper limit to all persons with preferential and exempt privileges, and requisition the land beyond the upper limit, but if the actual owner can promise to pay the tax, then the land ownership certificate can still be obtained.

Sending such an "internal reference" to Yong'an Prefecture will surely set off a vigorous land redistribution campaign in the counties under the jurisdiction of Yong'an Prefecture.

However, Jia placed emphasis on "adapting measures to local conditions" in the "reference", that is, adjusting methods and means according to the specific local conditions.The most important thing is that before starting to clear the ownership of the land, it is necessary to complete the transformation of the county government officials and officials, promote new people, pay them salaries, and instill the concept of honesty and self-discipline - there is such a group of grassroots officials as the basic foundation , the land issue can be resolved.

After all, the biggest problem with grassroots work in southern rural areas is that the gentry class monopolizes all the right to speak in grassroots affairs. If the inextricable connection between them and the county-level administration is not cut off, the real "pain point" will not be resolved. .

Whether the specific counties can complete these arduous tasks, Jia Fang does not know.He is alone in this time and space, and can only rely on the "model" he has established to influence the people around him little by little.

The benefits of "model" are obvious, and the difficulty and short-term disadvantages can basically be seen at a glance.

As for how people around him will choose after seeing his "model", Jia Xin has no idea: he knows that not everyone can stand firmly behind him like Yuan Hua.In Yong'an Prefecture, how other lands will react, he can only wait for time to give him an answer.

At this moment, the Crown Prince Taifu Xia Xingshen was sitting opposite Jia Fang, holding the "internal reference" in his hand and muttering to Jia Fang: "Your method is too rascal, so it seems a bit child's play."

Jia Fang wasn't angry either. The old matriarch with her snow-white hair picked all kinds of faults in front of him. In fact, there was no malice, but more care and love.Jia Fang is used to this.

"Remember, from now on, you have to be open and frank. If the other party wants it, you will give it. This is the kingly way." Xia Xingshen was still making gestures.

Jia Fang: Dare the prince and Taifu teach the prince and the others in the same way? ——If the other party wants it, you will give it?

"However, you actually decided to write all the details of Zhangtian in Wuyuan County as an 'internal reference', and circulate and share them with the counties in the prefecture. Your evidence." Xia Sheng pointed to Jia Fang while twitching his beard.

But Jia Fang didn't care. Others got this "internal reference" that was true. Even if they knew what was being criticized, they could only criticize Yuan County Magistrate and others. What does it have to do with him?

He is a person who intends to withdraw at any time after completing the task. He has done his best to help the grassroots construction in the southern border.

So Jia Fang smiled and replied to Xia Xingshen: "If the other party wants it, I will give it!"

Immediately, Xia Xingshen was held back again.

At this moment, Zheng Boyi hurried in with a letter in his hand and said, "Here we come!"

——what's coming?

Jia Fang and Xia Shengshen went to look at the letterhead in Zheng Boyi's hand together, only to see that there were only two lines with a few large characters on it: "The copper ring is three or six, and the matter is already harmonious."

Xia Sheng was at a loss, but Jia Fang lifted his spirits and asked, "Where did you get this?"

Zheng Boyi replied: "The Zhao family is a side branch in a neighboring county."

Since Zheng Boyi started to promote the "post service" in the whole Yong'an Prefecture, many people in Wuyuan County soon began to use the "post service" because of the convenience, speed and accuracy of the post.Even the boy who delivered letters from the Liu family used to be lazy and used the postal service to deliver letters from the Liu family to the big grain households in the county.

But the Zhao family is an exception.The Zhao family doesn't write letters.

The Zhao family has always sent a young man to go to other places to deliver news, and he will finish all the information given by the Patriarch face to face, and then come back quickly.

Therefore, Zheng Boyi had no way of knowing what the Zhao family's frequent contacts with the outside world were for the past few days.

But the "postal company" has opened to the whole Yong'an Prefecture after all, and if the Zhao family doesn't write letters, it doesn't mean that those who contact the Zhao family can't write letters.

Zheng Boyi has been ordering his "postman" to be careful, and finally intercepted such a letter from the branch of the Zhao family in the neighboring county——

"Three or six copper rings, the matter has been harmonious."

Xia Shengshen couldn't understand at all, so Zheng Boyi explained to him: "Six years ago, there was a group of bandits in Yong'an Prefecture, and they called the leader 'Bronze Ring Three and Four'. Later, the bandit leader was arrested four years ago. Arrived, executed in Yongan Prefecture."

"Now they communicate, but it has become 'Bronze Ring Three Six'." Jia Fang said.

I don't know if this is the bandit leader's brother, or the person who inherited the bandit leader's mantle.It may even be unrelated, but inherited from an earlier gang.

Xia Shengshen suddenly understood, and with an "ah", he cursed loudly, "How dare these people collude with bandits?"

"Is it because the place is remote and the people don't obey Wang Hua, so they ignore the ban and gang up with bandits?" The old man was talking, his beard raised in anger.

Jia Fang said indifferently: "This secret collusion has nothing to do with dissatisfaction with Wang Hua, but only with interests."

Xia Shengshen: ...

In Jia Fang's view, the rectification of the county officials by the Wuyuan County Government this time, coupled with the repainting of the fish scale book and the reissue of the land deeds in Zhangtian of Wuyuan County, inevitably affected the interests of a group of people.In addition, the nearby Taoyuan Village has suddenly become rich, which is eye-catching.Therefore, some people must have the idea of ​​colluding with gangs and looting places.

In addition, some people think that as long as there is a major incident in the south, Jia Fang can be driven away and Yuan Hua can be dismissed-if the superiors send a county official down, they will still be the same as before, relying heavily on the local gentry .As long as this can be achieved, then the benefits they lost will gradually be returned.

Therefore, interests drove a group of people to take dangerous and tentative steps, and they were not cautious when delivering news, and even chose the officially recommended communication method.

The news of "Bronze Ring Three Six" unexpectedly fell into Jia Fang's hands.

Jia Fang nodded and said to Zheng Boyi, "You did a great job!"

Zheng Boyi immediately beamed with joy, because he knew that Jia Fang didn't usually praise others easily, but once he did, he really did a very good job.His chief of staff, who is over forty years old, is also very excited.He immediately asked Jia Fang: "Lord Jia, what are we going to do?"

Jia Fang only said: "You go and ask Nan Yongqian to come together first, and then go and push the sand table in my study over together."

Xia Shengshen sat upright on the spot without moving, his beard still upturned, and he felt very curious when he heard this term: "Sand table?"

Soon, Zheng Boyi and Nan Yongqian, together with the two, carefully entrusted a "military sand table".

During this period of time, Jia Fanghui and Nan Yongqian used the original maps of each county in Yong'an Prefecture, and also referred to the fish scale book that the Liu family helped to draw, plus Nanyongqian's personal visit to this military sand table. , Observing the topography, it is a "sand table" that basically completely conforms to the local topography.

This "sand table" is not made of "sand", but a large amount of fabric fibers such as cotton and linen are used. The pulp is first made by a method similar to papermaking, and then pressed into shapes according to the landscape and dried to make a basic topographic sand table. Then use mulberry paper and Korean paper to mark towns and villages bit by bit on the terrain, making it a "military sand table" with a high degree of simulation.

Xia Shengshen quickly found the location of Wuyuan County where he was located on the sand table. He saw that in this small county with four walls, he could still see the roads and houses next to each other, which made him feel Very strange.

"Everyone, this will be the first time we face bandits directly." Jia Fang felt a little excited for no reason.This is also the first time he has faced armed forces in this time and space.

"At this stage, there are only two things we can do. The first is to try our best to find out the news of 'Bronze Ring Three Six' at any cost, how many people they have, what kind of equipment they have, and their combat effectiveness."

"The other thing is to strengthen our own defenses—"

"The fact that this letter is here means that the target of the 'Bronze Ring Three Six' must be Wu Yuan and Taoyuan."

After all, behind this bandit is actually a conflict of interests. If you want to get back what you lost, you must drive away Jia Fang and Yuan Hua.

"Especially in Wuyuan County - we own one, with a city wall, and inside the city wall is the city of the other party's internal response!"